Minerals

Examples

• Of these minerals, beryl, garnet and tourmaline are the most abundant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• However, he early began his collection of minerals and observed the relation of the soil and the vegetation to the underlying ro cks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Minerals in Lancashire and Wales. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• There is also a tannage made from minerals that is called chrome. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Musical Sounds from Minerals and Other Substances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Had the different strata of clay, gravel, marble, coals, limestone, sand, minerals, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Chemical History of Metals and Minerals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In a short time the two youths had become inseparable friends, experimenting together, and taking walks to the mines and quarries in the neighborhood of Penzance in search of minerals for study. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The try everything spirit of Edison's method is well illustrated in this early period by a series of about sixteen hundred resistance tests of various ores, minerals, earths, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The silica, which is the principal ingredient of sand, as well as of nearly all the earthy minerals, is known as rock crystal in its naturally crystallized form. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The temperate and torrid zones of the world are ransacked in order to secure the wood, the minerals and the animal substances, all of which are necessary to provide the means of play. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Above it lie the several minerals in their usual order, and over all is a coat of rich mould, ten or twelve feet deep. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Theophrastus considered the medicinal uses of minerals a s well as of plants. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We know, for instance, that minerals and the elemental substances can be thus arranged. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Mixed minerals will often intercrystallize in blobs or branching shapes that are very suggestive of simple plant or animal forms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He observe d the color, the hardness, weight, fracture of minerals, and experienced the joy the youthful mind feels in rap id identification. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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